Yet the alumni network is extremely impressive and stretches from Daniel Webster to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during its 239 year history.

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He frets about the guides who say the statue of Daniel Webster in Central Park represents the guy behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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Calhoun understood the Constitution better than did Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.

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Political, academic, and business leaders gathered under a monumental painting of Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster debating South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne in 1830.

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The first famous regular, Daniel Webster, liked to sit at the U-shaped raw bar downstairs - still in use today - and enjoy three dozen raw oysters with a tumbler of brandy with.

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"I think that the emotional appeal in the State of the Union speech can be important for elected officials who have to appeal to a jurisdiction that is not overwhelmingly Republican, " said Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

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Fittingly, Boston is home to the oldest restaurant in the United States, the still popular Union Oyster House, where JFK used to read his Sunday papers in a reserved booth while enjoying oysters, while earlier patron Daniel Webster had his at the bar, usually no less than three dozen a day, chased with a tall tumbler of brandy.

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But Bush also likes to relax, as he told a Webster Elementary School student Daniel Hannah-Dubois of Manchester, one of two students who interviewed him on LaBombard's bus during a campaign swing last month.

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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Daniel W. Webster.

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